Great Falls may refer to:

Communities

''All located in the United States; listed alphabetically by state'' *

Great Falls, Montana Great Falls is the third most populous city in the U.S. state of Montana and the county seat of Cascade County. The population was 60,442 according to the 2020 census. The city covers an area of and is the principal city of the Great Falls, M ...

, a city in Cascade County * Great Falls, New Hampshire, and early name of the current city of Somersworth, New Hampshire *

Great Falls, South Carolina Great Falls is a town in Chester County, South Carolina, United States and is located fourteen miles southwest of Lancaster, South Carolina. The population was 1,979 at the 2010 census. History The Great Falls Depot, Great Falls Downtown Histo ...

, a town in Chester County * Great Falls, Virginia, a census-designated place in Fairfax County **

Great Falls Crossing, Virginia Great Falls Crossing is a census designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast ...

, a census designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia

Historic locations

''All located in the United States'' *

Great Falls Depot Great Falls Depot, also known as the Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot, is a historic train station located at Great Falls, South Carolina, Great Falls, Chester County, South Carolina. It was built in 1911–1912 by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. It ...

, in Great Falls, South Carolina *

Great Falls Downtown Historic District Great Falls Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Great Falls, Chester County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 14 contributing buildings in the central business district of Great Falls. They were built b ...

, in Great Falls, South Carolina * Great Falls Historic District, in Windham, Maine * Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad, in Northern Virginia * Great Falls Portage, a route taken by the Lewis and Clark Expedition around the Great Falls of the Missouri River * Great Falls station, in Great Falls, Montana *

Great Falls Tavern Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" *Artel Great (born ...

, in Montgomery County, Maryland * Old Great Falls Historic District, in Paterson, New Jersey

Sports teams

''All based in the U.S. state of Montana'' * Great Falls Americans, a junior ice hockey team *

Great Falls Americans (AWHL) The Great Falls Americans were a junior ice hockey team based in Great Falls, Montana playing in the American Frontier Hockey League and the America West Hockey League from 1995 to 2003. They played at the Four Seasons Arena. The team won th ...

, a defunct junior ice hockey team active 1995–2003 *

Great Falls Americans (WHL) The Great Falls Americans were a junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League who played a portion of the 1979–80 WHL season. The team was a relocation of the 1978–79 WHL season, 1978–79 Edmonton Oil Kings (WCHL)#Western Hockey League ...

, a defunct junior ice hockey team active 1979–1980 * Great Falls Electric, a professional basketball team * Great Falls Electrics, a defunct minor-league baseball team *

Great Falls Explorers The Great Falls Explorers were a team in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) founded in 2006. The team played their home games at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls, Montana. The franchise was branded 'Explorers' in honor of Lewis a ...

, a defunct team in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) * Great Falls Voyagers, a professional baseball team

Waterfalls

United States

''Listed alphabetically by the associated river'' *

Great Falls (Catawba River) The Great Falls of the Catawba River mark the point at which the river encounters a series of rapids while coursing across the Piedmont Plateau on the border of Lancaster County, South Carolina, and Chester County, South Carolina, near the town of ...

, South Carolina * Great Falls (Columbia River) or Celilo Falls, Oregon and Washington *

Great Falls (Connecticut River) Great Falls is a waterfall along the Connecticut River between Walpole, New Hampshire, and Bellows Falls, Vermont. It has also been called Bellows Falls, and its Abenaki name is Kitchee Pontegu, which means "great falls". Great Falls became its ...

, New Hampshire and Vermont *

Great Falls (Housatonic River) Great Falls is a waterfall formed along the Housatonic River at Falls Village in the town of Canaan amidst Connecticut's Litchfield Hills The Northwest Hills (also known as the Litchfield Hills or Northwest Highlands) are a geographic region ...

, Connecticut * Great Falls (Missouri River), Montana *

Great Falls (Passaic River) The Great Falls of the Passaic River is a prominent waterfall, high, on the Passaic River in the city of Paterson in Passaic County, New Jersey. The falls and surrounding area are protected as part of the Paterson Great Falls National Histor ...

, New Jersey * Great Falls (Potomac River), Maryland and Virginia

Elsewhere

* Akiu Great Falls, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan *

Great Falls (Hamilton, Ontario) The city of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada is home to more than 100 waterfalls and cascades, most of which are on or near the Bruce Trail as it winds through the Niagara Escarpment. Ontario's internationally recognized Niagara Escarpment provides p ...

, Canada *

Hayato Great Falls is a waterfall on the Hayato River within the boundaries of the Tanzawa-Ōyama Quasi-National Park, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It ...

, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan *

Namekawa Great Falls is a waterfall located in the city of Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, on a branch of the Abukuma River. It is one of " Japan’s Top 100 Waterfalls", in a listing published by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment in 1990. The falls form ...

, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Other uses

''All based in the U.S. state of Montana unless noted otherwise'' *

Great Falls Air Force Base Malmstrom Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base and census-designated place (CDP) in Cascade County, Montana, United States, adjacent to the city of Great Falls, Montana, Great Falls. It was named in honor of World War II POW Colonel Ei ...

, an early name for the current Malmstrom Air Force Base ** Great Falls Air Defense Sector, deactivated since 1966 * Great Falls College Montana State University, a public community college *

Great Falls Dam (Manitoba) Great Falls Generating Station is a hydroelectric dam on the Winnipeg River approximately 130 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg in the Rural Municipality of Alexander in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The dam is owned and operated by Manitob ...

, a hydroelectric dam on the Winnipeg River, Canada * Great Falls Dam (Tennessee), a hydroelectric dam on the Caney Fork * Great Falls International Airport, an airport in Cascade County * ''

Great Falls Leader The ''Great Falls Leader'' was a daily evening newspaper published in Great Falls, Montana. Established in 1888, the ''Leader'' was one of two daily newspapers in the city for much of its history, competing with the morning ''Great Falls Tribune'' ...

'', a defunct newspaper published in Great Falls * Great Falls Park, a National Park Service (NPS) site in Fairfax County, Virginia, U.S. *

Great Falls Public Schools The Great Falls Public Schools (also known as School District #1) is a public school district which covers the city limits of Great Falls, Montana, in the United States. As of March 2010, it was the second-largest school district in the state of Mo ...

, a public school district **

Great Falls Central Catholic High School Great Falls Central Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Great Falls, Montana. It is one of three Catholic high schools in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Great Falls-Billings. Background Great Falls Central Catholic was ...

Great Falls High School Great Falls High School (or GFHS) is a public high school for grades 9 through 12 located in Great Falls, Montana. Established in 1890, it was the city's first high school. The school's original building, constructed in 1896, is now on the Natio ...

* Great Falls Tectonic Zone, a major intracontinental shear zone * Great Falls Transit, a public bus service *'' Great Falls Tribune'', a daily morning newspaper printed in Helena *

Lake Great Falls Lake Great Falls was a prehistoric proglacial lake which existed in what is now central Montana in the United States between 15,000 BCE and 11,000 BCE.Hill, Christopher L. and Valppu, Seppo H. "Geomorphic Relationships and Paleoenvironmental Cont ...

, a prehistoric lake